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May 24, 2005

Kevin Kelly's Asia Grace

Kevin Kelly is an amazing man and will be featured in an upcoming traveler profile entry in this blog. His book, Asia Grace, is published by Taschen and is 320 pages of full-color photographs without any accompanying text. The pictures are beautiful and stand up on their own merits, but when you learn that the author was backpacking and carrying 500 rolls of film with him at a time you begin to see how amazing the story behind the book is.

Kevin details how the book was produced in the production notes; here is an excerpt:

My method of shooting was simple: smile, shoot first, ask questions later. It seemed to work. I spent enormous amounts of time hanging around places waiting for something to happen. Sometimes it did, often it didn't. Further years were spent in the back of local buses waiting to leave. I learned a lot, but the truth is, a lot of what I photographed I have only a vague notion of what was really going on. Asia is complex, infinitely deep, and I was just a kid with a camera. I slept in local inns; I ate whatever was being served, and yes, I drank the water anywhere the natives did. I got sick only once, in Katmandu - hepatitis A.

In addition to the book there is a website where you can view all the pictures from the book with Kevin's description of each. The site is also setup to allow visitors to share information about pictures that Kevin may not know much about, an idea that is quite obvious but rarely executed as well as it is here.

Posted by Beau Gunderson at May 24, 2005 6:01 PM

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